Villainess Escape

Awakening

The first thing I can remember is pain. I can feel it rippling across my brain like spiderwebs on a pane of broken glass, shattering my thoughts into a million pieces. I try putting the pieces back together but stop as ones that don't belong to me are shoved through the cracks in my mind. Slowly the pieces start rearranging themselves and I'm left with taped together memories.

My name is Regina King and I am fifteen years old. At least, that was supposed to be me. Last night I was supposed to die. To be more specific, I tried to kill myself. I can remember the pain from when I cut my wrist, so why does it feel like I'm still alive and where did these other memories come from? They seem to belong to a little girl. Let's see... her name is Amira. Amira Josephine Rollens, age seven to be exact. That sounds... familiar. Doesn't that name belong to the villainess from an otome game I played? Wait... the villainess? Now is probably a good time to wake up and see what's going on.

I try to pry open my eyes, but they feel like they've been superglued shut. I manage to painfully pry them open and find myself lying in a four-poster bed. I lift my hands in front of my face to discover that they are quite a bit smaller than I remember. I carefully use these tiny hands to push myself up into a sitting position and slowly look around the room. Two words can pretty much sum up what the room looks like: huge and fancy. However, I have this nagging thought in the back of my head that this is completely normal. I suppose it would be normal if I've been living like this my entire life.

While looking around I found a full-length mirror leaning up against one of the walls and I quickly slide out of bed and walk towards it. I look in the mirror and find a pretty little girl staring back at me. She - no I - have hair down to my waist in a deep mahogany color and beautiful green-blue eyes. There's some kind of bandage wrapped around my head. I'm wearing some kind of silky feeling nightdress. It feels nice, but that's not what I should be focusing on. I walk to a chair standing nearby and sit down so that I didn't have to tire my legs by standing.

It's probably best if I start from the beginning again. I am definitely Amira the villainess from the game that I played. I'm sure this isn't just a dream though because of Amira's - my memories. Let's see... My parents are Katherine Claire Rollens and James Christopher Rollens. I have a twin brother whose name is Adrien Joseph Rollens. So, it turns out that Amira has a strange power. In the game everyone had magic powers, but I've never heard of this one before. Apparently, Amira can... feel other people's feelings? See other people's feelings? I don't know how to explain it, but she - I am basically a lie detector and I know what anyone is actually feeling. And that's the problem. So, from Amira's - my memories, apparently, I've had this kind of power for as long as I can remember. And most everybody's thoughts have not been good towards me. People used to like me - or at least act like they did - but when I realized how some people truly felt about me, I wasn't very nice to them and others' opinions about me fell. The more people didn't like me, the more I was rude to them and the cycle went on and on.

Out of all the people who I've met, only three truly care for me; my parents and my maid. My parents dote on me and don't care that I act like a little brat because I am their sweet "little angel." Barbara is my maid and has been taking care of me since I was one year old. She hears the gossip in the house and what people say behind my back, so she says that my actions can be excused and that no one understands me. They really are the nicest people. There is my brother, but he is... not very fond of me to put it nicely. Adrien used to like me, but he gradually started ignoring Amira and she could feel his dislike for her grow. The reason for this is because I was born first and become the heir for my family. Apparently, my parents decided that they wanted the oldest living kid to be the heir no matter what so even though I'm a girl, I'm the heir of the Rollens family. Let's just say that Adrien did not like that. While we were getting older and he saw how I acted towards others who didn't like me - but appeared like good people - his dislike for me grew.

This power has really caused me a lot of problems. Because of this power, the worst thing for Amira - for me - happened just a little bit ago. Since Amira recently turned seven, she was able to go to a party - her debut into society. It was there at the party that her engagement to Benjamin Anthony Williams - the crown prince - was announced. Amira was ecstatic because she has had a crush on him for quite a while. Unfortunately, because of her power, Amira could tell that he had no interest in her. I think that he might have already been told about her attitude and how she acted, but I don't think seven-year-old Amira understood that. She tried different things to get his attention or garner some interest, but instead she sensed his feelings turn from disinterest to disgust. She had angrily run out of the ballroom and was heading towards the gardens when she fell down a flight of stairs. While I'm not sure who it was, I know somebody pushed her - me down the steps. And somehow, I had ended up in Amira's body. Well, that explains where the bandage came from. Aah, this is tiring. I'm now in the body of someone who - in the game I played - is supposed to grow up a villainess and end up dying because of her actions.

The game starts when everyone is older. The heroine is a commoner attending a school normally just used by nobles. This is because nobles are normally the only ones with magical power. Because the heroine has magical power though, she ends up attending the school as well. The point of the game is for you - the heroine - to get other people interested in you and to fall for you. Those people are capture targets. Depending on choices made, the heroine can improve her relationship with different capture targets. In this game you start out with five capture targets and both my brother Adrien and my fiancé Benjamin are capture targets. Anyway, Amira's whole role in this game is to cause the heroine problems. She bullies her and accuses her of things in every route played. She is most especially awful when the heroine is forming a relationship with her fiancé. I used to wonder if Amira thought that acting like a brat would make Benjamin like her, but now I wonder if by that time Amira stopped caring about what others thought and was just being mean to those who didn't like her. I hope to never find that out because I don't want to die again anytime soon. Last time, circumstances were... different, but I plan on having an amazing life this time. I am a little worried though because the game never talked about an attempt on Amira's life when she was little. Of course, if no one saw it happen, no one can be blamed. Hurray. Now I have to worry about someone wanting to kill me too. Note the heavy sarcasm please.

Sighing, I stand up and go to the window, pushing aside the light, satiny drapes to look outside. My window looks into a beautiful courtyard garden. There are beautiful flowers and nicely trimmed shrubs and bushes everywhere. While my eyes take in the scenery, a couple of maids carrying wastebaskets walked into view. They were chatting happily when suddenly one of them glanced in my direction and froze as our eyes met. Surprise. I stumble back from the window, letting the drapes fall back into place. "What was that?" I whisper. I could see the surprise on the maid's face, but I could feel it too. "That is so weird."

I carefully move back to the window and peek outside, but no one is there. I wonder where the maids went. Oh well. That doesn't really matter. Wait, what's that sound? I turn to face the door to my room as the noise gets louder and closer. Anxious. What was... I jump as the door is suddenly flung open and a maid comes running into the room.

Happiness. Surprise. "Mistress! You're awake! How are you feeling? Are you hungry?" the maid babbles in a non-stop stream of words. Wait, that's Barbara.

I rub my head from all the noise she's making. Concern. "I'm ok Barbara. You don't have to worry."

Confusion. "Mistress?"

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Hello!! It's me again. I hope you liked the first chapter! I'll be updating photos later of what the characters look like, so bear with until then.

I'll update when I can. Until then, take a guess as to where you think the stories are going to be heading!